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  • congratulations on this very, very nice demonstration of europ. martial arts!! It is a joy to watch this! I have to admit, when I read eg. Ringecks work on wrestling I somehow puzzeld how to put these technics into practis - but watching this is truly eye-opening!!! I wish you all the best for the future - greetz from Austria.

  • waht is this music ? its pretty epic

  • @kaindrg the music is from "the witcher" soundtrack

    title : The lesser of two evils

  • Dont u love how proper marketing, japanese animes, the mystic east,and crappy movie sword choreography give ppl misconcetions :D

  • @kaindrg Oh i know, sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't buy into the "Samurai were the ultimate warriors" crap. If more Westerners actually looked at our heritage then they would very quickly understand that our ancestors bloody knew what they were doing when it came to fighting each other. There is a reason that Europe was the greatest power the world has ever seen up until we destroyed ourselves in WWI and WWII. Japan on the other hand, meh, never really left their island.

  • @EvidensInsania well most asian countries were fine and didnt need to leave europe had everlasting economic and social turmoil until they discoverd the new world. i wasnt combat taht made them strong but rather the need to survive that lead the small explasions which then led to bigger expansions. actaully the japanese emissary visited venice before and had extensive trade with places as far as india.

  • @EvidensInsania really the samurai ninja stuff only became popular when american got hold of it. japanese before WW2 didnt really care and regard the samurai as old fashioned and bushido shit wasnt popularized until world war 2 as many code of chivalry were never really up held untill people later spoke of it romanticly(ie knightly conduct and bushido)

  • @kaindrg I agree with you on America getting their hands on it, but I believe that the Japanese still thought highly of Samurai unlike we Europeans did about our knights. For instance in WWII many Japanese soldiers bought cheap katanas to take with them into battle. But the thing that really bothers me is how most people consider Samurai and ninjas to be such amazing warriors while in comparison European knights were just drunk idiots blindly swinging their apparently "inferior" swords around.

  • @EvidensInsania that bothers me to ppl find it strange that im asian and i defend western martial arts against perceptions(false) of western. the first society that tried to bring back traditional fighting methods had little success because europeans though only moder fencing was superior because it was a nobel sport. japanese only were obsesed during world war two before the nationalist brain wash they didnt give a shit about samurais.

  • Ya, also it's obviously mostly "borrowed" from jujutsu, kenjutsu and wrestling.

  • @razorl4f

    What is borrowed? The techniques here? No, they're actually derived from historical manuals written as far back as the 1300s. They're not borrowed from the arts you just stated.

  • @Caliburnis would schwieng of w/e its called from switzerland be related?

  • @Caliburnis Yes, they are. The historical manuals you talk about are way to vague to explain detailed techniques like that. Besides: Don't you find it striking how much this stuff resembles the asian martial arts?

  • @razorl4f

    Its called "kampfringen' and it predates Jujutsu by centuries. And do you honestly think that europeans spent 1000 years swinging swords at random without ever figuring out how to use them?

  • Absolutely fantastic ringen work! Best to you!

  • This is very, very good. It is what I want my guys to look like when they wrestle. The one criticism I have is to a certain degree of modernization of techniques. The medieval double leg seems to have involved a headbutt to the stomach, and I don't remember any manual that mentions cartwheeling off of a downed opponent. I will use this video to improve my own technique and that of my students.

  • Wow, European knights sure were good at Judo.

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  • @sedcontra Its called Kampfringen and it predates Judo by centuries. Amazing as it may seem, teh Japanese are not the only ones to have discovered joint locks and hip throws.

  • @temmy9 s far as I know, all western and eastern martial arts go back to the ancient Greeks...

  • @TheLoki7281

    There is currently as far as I know no proof that pankration (that's probably what u mean when u say that eastern and western arts go back to ancient greek) inspired the arts of the far east. Also there is high likelihood that pankration in itself was developed from ancient Egyptian/Nubian wrestling which predates pankration. And the greeks themselves claim to have been inspired and developed at least parts of their culture from egypt.

  • @Giagantus jep you are right..

  • @Giagantus actaully these is a low likelyhood since its is unianimously accepted teh ppl tend to invent their own martial arts in pre modern. times one reason is that culturally grapping is universal because its the most natural. so athropologist call its Cultural Universalis. if think it is then ur happy to look at ACTAsonia's channel for greco roman martial arts reproduction. the only people the really think of african origin a black supremicists.

  • @kaindrg If that the case the one cannot claim (using you Cultural Universalis) that pankration (via Alexander) inspired or created the eastern martial arts as TheLoki7281 claimed. I look at that channel if there is time. Also not that Egypt is alot more than african and/or black. And it's a undeniable fact that the elder civilization influenced the greeks. Also unless there is clear descendent's the reproduction (of Greco-roman MA) will always be modern interpretations. Adn there isn't

  • @Giagantus actaully i looked at the egyptian paintings and the opeing grips do seeming similar to that of ancient greco roman. i under as the need for evidence but from what i can see other than the fake pacrationist douche on human weapon selling kick boxing and bjj by marketing it as somethign its not. ACTAsonias channels demonstration see little influence from the biases of modern understanding of MA even though it would be the real thing it worth checking bro

  • @temmy9

    Well all humans are built the same way essentially so it's no surprise that the arts look so similiar, there are only so many ways to break an arm for instance.

  • @sedcontra The ringen techniques shown in this video are recorded in several medieval German manuscripts. The master whose techniques are most often cited was a wrestling master called Ott. His techniques are described in the Von Danzig manuscript, among others. One can also find it Talhoffer (1467) and Ringeck (1440).

  • @sedcontra

    Actually they're good at their own indigenous, natively developed martial arts which we know about through dozens of historical manuals written by masters in the period. :)

  • @sedcontra read the book titled "Medieval Combat" 

  • make a new onr

  • exactly eddiedaskull. there are grappling styles from all over the world in china germany switzerland portugal. not just the japanese.

  • as we can see the japanese don't have a monopoly on throws or sword skills

  • Great action! looks like a good presentation.

  • this is wrestling for swords and weapons of thse kinds.

  • Wrestling interpretations done by wrestlers what an awesome thought. So often the interpretations are done by scholars without the backgrounf

  • awesome move at 1:03!

    When are you guys are coming to Brazil? =D

  • this move catched my eye too, tried to copy it, but with random result

  • This is really great. Would really want to train with you guys.

  • Awesome! You have given me goosebumps!

  • makes me wanna study to old treatises. =)

  • This is great.

  • Great work fellas.

  • Amazing! Who is the head instructor? how do i contact him?

  • nice!

    The Witcher soundtrack!

  • Excellent!

  • Absolutely amazing. Five stars and favorited! This video actually had me worried about the person being 'acted upon' a couple times!

  • Yer good move saving this one to your favourites. I'm putting this on favourites as well. Great film : )

  • This really makes me want to visit Poland! I thought every aspect of this video was impressive but I was especially enterested in the lifting takedowns. Very good work.

  • Well done. Very cool vid.

  • Very nice!

  • You guys have done it again.

    /Anders

  • Sweet!!!

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